Re: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
Originally Posted by
Percy Vere
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I thought it was down to all the Iranian money the UK Government is withholding and refusing to return to them.
Exactly this.
Iranian rulers have hated the UK for a very long time - since 1979 and the revolution in fact which is when the alleged debt for what remained of an order for UK-made tanks arose.
The deposed Iranian Shah was a western ally and the November 1979 seizing by Iran of the USA embassy in Tehran didn't exactly lead to friendly relationships.
Sadly things have not improved very much since then as we can all see with Iran's determination to become one of the world's nuclear powers; who in their right mind would not be concerned at from an Islamic extremist state?
Sadly Nazanin is just one in a very long line of people kidnapped and ransomed (or worse, executed) by Iran over the decades since their revolution.
Personally I would rather people do not bow to the demands of such extremists and pay huge fortunes for the release of their citizens like Obama did, for example.